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D O N OW Do you think Discrimination continues to happen today? Why, 5 line H OMEWORK November 29, 2011 Guided reading Chapter 8-3

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D O N OW R EVIEW Pair Share your do Now response!

L EARNING G OALS Learning Goals are the purpose of our lesson. As you advance in this course, the goals should become easier and easier to achieve. If you ever wonder why we are doing something in class, take a look at the learning goals and think about how our activity might help you achieve our goals. Our goal is to summarize turn of the 20 th century race relations in the south and in the north Our goal is to identify discrimination against minorities in the American West

T ODAY WE WILL : Listen: Segregation and discrimination Questions, Comments, Concerns Class Closing

WARM-UP

CORNELL NOTES Section Notes Topic (What am I taking notes on?): SEGREGATION & DISCRIMINATION What I already know about this topic is… New Vocabulary (to look up later): Chapter # 8 Section #: 3

Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute He believed that racism would end when blacks acquired useful labor skills & valuable to society Du Bois was a black educator who disagreed with Washington. 1 st black to get doctorate from Harvard. Founded the Niagara Movement which insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts degree. Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

IDA B. WELLS Leader in the fight against discrimination. Tried to end lynching. Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

Measures taken to keep African Americans from voting: Reading test : Gave a literacy test that kept many blacks from being able to vote Poll Tax: Tax that one had to pay to enter a voting booth Grandfather clause: Stated that any person could vote if their father or grandfather was qualified to vote before Jan. 1, Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

Barbers No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls. Georgia

JIM CROW LAWS Southern states passed segregation laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilities These laws came to be known as “Jim Crow Laws”, named after an old minstrel song Racial segregation was put into effect in schools, hospitals, parks, and transportation systems throughout the South Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

RACE RELATIONS – 1900 Blacks faced legal discrimination as well as informal rules and customs Meant to humiliate these “rules” included; whites never shaking the hand of an African America, blacks had to yield the sidewalk to whites, blacks also had to remove their hats in the presence of whites Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

VIOLENCE African Americans who did not follow the racial etiquette could face severe punishment or death Between , more than 1,400 black men and women were shot, burned, or lynched Lynching peaked in the 1880s and 90s but continued well into the 20 th century Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

MAJOR AREAS OF LYNCHING

PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896) In 1892, a 30-year old shoemaker named Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a car for only white people on the East Louisiana Railroad. He had refused to move to a black car. Even though he was seven-eighths white and only one-eighth black, he was put in jail. The Louisiana law stated that if you had any black ancestors, you were considered black. Because of this, Plessy was required to sit in the "colored" or "black" car. Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

PLESSY v. FERGUSON Eventually a legal case reached the U.S. Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of segregation Created the separate but equal clause In 1896, in Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of races was legal and did not violate the 14 th Amendment Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

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Summary (this is what I read in my own words) How can we say this all in one or two sentences in our own words? Questions, Comments, or Concerns for the good of the cause (I still do not understand…, I wonder…):

W HAT DID WE LEARN TODAY ? H OW DOES THIS HELP US ACHIEVE OUR LEARNING GOALS ?

A RE YOU READY TO GO ? Clean-up your area Follow classroom procedures for returning books, computers, and folders Wait quietly to be dismissed Push in your chair Have your homework written, agenda out, and ready to be signed at the door